Telling stories

Hello!

This May sees the return of our Digital Storytelling Festival on 19 and 20 May. We’re really excited about the festival and to celebrate we’ve dedicated this month’s newsletter to storytelling! So get comfortable, enjoy our tips for storytelling and take our challenge to put one into use this week, discover our storytelling dice, join the Europeana Writer’s Room and get your ticket to the Digital Storytelling Festival - we look forward to seeing you there!

Read on to explore and get involved.

Digital Storytelling Festival

It’s back! Our annual festival of storytelling aims to inspire participants to boost their storytelling skills and to create connections between art, culture, history and the contemporary world. We’ve just released this year’s packed programme - we’re really excited about it and hope to see you there. The festival takes place online, and tickets are free!

Seven tips for digital storytelling

How can you tell engaging and inspiring stories with cultural heritage online? Explore our seven simple tips for digital storytelling, available in 17 languages. And with them we set you a challenge. Take one of the tips and put it into use in your work this week! If you do, we’d love to hear from you which one you used and how it worked for you.

Explore Europeana’s story dice - and make your own

Story dice are printable dice with a different image on each side and are a great tool to spark imagination, develop creative ideas, and enhance problem-solving skills. Used in a group, they also encourage collaboration, listening and self-expression. 

Europeana’s story dice use cultural heritage images to provide creative prompts. Pick an image you like, or roll a dice at random, and then write, draw or discuss. Find out more about our story dice, learn six ways to use them and even make your own!

Join the Europeana Writers’ Room

The Europeana Writers' Room is a monthly creative writing workshop. It takes place on the first Wednesday of each month and offers you a dedicated hour for writing and creativity. 

It uses illustrations and imagery from Europeana.eu to inspire participants to write stories, poems, texts, reflections and more. The workshops start with gentle warm-up exercises and then move on to longer prompts so you can really explore your ideas. 

By combining practical writing exercises with a supportive writers’ circle feel, the sessions provide an inspiring and focused space to develop your writing and offer resources and ideas to keep the stories coming. You can write in any language during the Writers' Room, and there is no obligation to share your work.

Our Online Creative Residency is underway! 

We're excited to be welcoming this year's participants who will be creating stories on the theme of science. Keep an eye out later in the year to see the results. In the meantime, check out stories from previous years!

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